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Posted by Jock Gill
Oregon science teacher a mega-hit on YouTube
09:34 AM PST on Monday, December 17, 2007
Associated Press
INDEPENDENCE, Ore. — Often, the kind of videos that blow up on YouTube involve scantily clad girls, or stupid pet tricks. But a nine-minute, 33-second video on the perils of global warming made by Central High School science teacher Greg Craven has zoomed to the top of the YouTube heap, with 4 million views worldwide.
That’s roughly 500 times the population of Independence. That puts it near the top of YouTube’s all-time list for views in the news and politics category, despite competition from videos featuring Britney Spears, Satan’s face in a 9/11 explosion and an Alabama leprechaun.
The video is a worldwide appeal for action on climate change before it’s too late.
Craven’s argument is that debate over whether or not humans caused global warming is pointless; instead, Craven suggests, “the risk of not acting far outweighs the risk of acting.”
1 comment Jock Gill | Climate Change, Community, Culture, Economy
OK using the same type of critical thinking lets do this;
I am a highly qualified astronomer and I believe and say that an asteroid is headed to collide with the earth. There are also many respected astronomers that disagree but using the same critical thinking path you arrive at the same conclusion as the video “professor”. Others join in with their own potential disasters.
So now we always have to act to prevent the worst case scenario for long range theoretical scenarios backed by assumptions using computer models?…. But! Wait! The models worked for subprime mortgages didn’t they?
Give me a break. This is just BS (not Batchelor of Science) and definately not real logic.